hubertlepicki
Localize date/time/datetime format according to local rules
Coming from Rails, we used to have the feature where we could specify date / time / timestamp formats in our translation files, and then use simple helper function to convert date/time/timestamp to current user’s locales using that template. We were also able to specify variants, say :short date format etc. The procedure is described here: Rails Internationalization (I18n) API — Ruby on Rails Guides
Is there something in Elixir ecosystem, that I am not aware of, that allows us to have similar effect?
I think I could hack something like that myself, using gettext to store format strings, then a custom helper to fetch this string from gettext and format timestamps accordingly, but I was wondering if I missed something that’s doing it (possibly better) already in the ecosystem of libraries?
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wojtekmach
I haven’t used it yet but this looks really comprehensive.
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kip
Here are the links to the packages in the ex_cldr family latest release. I can see the benefit to a tighter integration between Gettext and ex_cldr and would welcome any thoughts along those lines.
LostKobrakai
I’m using it and it’s really great. With ex_cldr and the cldr database backing it the level of availability and maintenance of formats is just unbeatable compared to any per project database.
hubertlepicki
the whole bunch of libraries look like something I can definitely use. I will give it a try, thank you so much for doing it 
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